THE Opposition has not added any further detail to its own climate change "direct action policy" since it was first announced at the start of February.
Opposition leader, Tony Abbott, released the policy after pressure from the Government to outline the Coalition's stance on climate change following the defeat of the emissions trading scheme (and the rolling of former leader Malcolm Turnbull, who had supported a scheme) in December last year.
The Opposition remains opposed to a carbon tax or price on carbon, and released a small amount of detail on specific incentives to help reduce carbon pollution, however there has been very little revealed on the policy since.
In April Mr Abbott told Rural Press that further details would be announced during the election campaign.
The Opposition policy unveiled in February promised to cut emissions to the same level as the Government using a market driven scheme based on rewards, not penalties.
The new policy, called a Direct Action Plan, promised to reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by five percent by 2020, as the Government's does, but without what Mr Abbott described as a "great big new tax on everything".
Paying farmers to build soil carbon, the planting of some 20 million new trees, and a major expansion of solar energy generation were major planks in the new policy.
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